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A kitten seems to have beaten the odds after being rescued from last week’s storm by a passing driver.

The 10-week-old kitten, now named Chicken, was hanging on to a manhole cover on Lake Shore Blvd. and was almost washed away before a passerby stopped and picked her up.

Now, Chicken is waiting for a “forever home” at the Spadina Animal Hospital.

“We’ve given her her first set of vaccines and deworming,” Kaila Izzard, a care attendant at the hospital, said. “She’s in the window right now and everyone comes in and says hi.”

Izzard said one of the hospital’s clients brought Chicken in and mentioned that she couldn’t keep the tiny kitten, because she had two bulldogs at home. Staff at the hospital did not know the client’s name.

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Because Chicken is so young, her mother was probably a stray, Izzard said, and it’s unlikely she’s anyone’s lost pet.

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